1 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
8 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
9 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
13 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
14 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
18 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
19 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
22 Seconded: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
23 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
24 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
26 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
27 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
32 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
33 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
37 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
38 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
39 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
40 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
41 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
42 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
43 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
44 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
45 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
47 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:48 -0700
49 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
53 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
56 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
57 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
59 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
60 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
64 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
65 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
69 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
70 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
74 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
75 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
76 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
77 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
81 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
82 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
83 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
84 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
85 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
87 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
88 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
92 * Add myself to Uploaders.
95 * Add myself to Uploaders.
96 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
98 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
99 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
100 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
102 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
104 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
107 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
111 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
112 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
114 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
116 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
117 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
121 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
122 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
124 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
126 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
127 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
131 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
132 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
136 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
137 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
139 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
141 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
142 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
144 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
146 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
147 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
148 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
151 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
152 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
156 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
157 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
160 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
162 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
163 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
164 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
165 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
166 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
167 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
168 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
169 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
170 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
171 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
172 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
173 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
174 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
175 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
176 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
177 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
178 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
179 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
180 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
181 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
182 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
183 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
184 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
185 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
186 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
187 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
188 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
189 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
190 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
191 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
193 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
194 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
195 links was completed long ago.
196 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
198 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
200 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
203 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
205 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
207 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
210 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
211 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
212 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
213 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
214 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
215 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
216 Millan (Closes: #209008).
217 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
218 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
220 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
222 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
224 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
225 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
226 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
227 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
228 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
229 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
230 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
232 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
233 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
234 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
235 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
237 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
238 Küster (Closes: #403391).
239 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
240 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
241 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
242 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
243 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
244 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
248 Closes: #186700, #458910
249 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
250 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
253 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
254 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
255 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
256 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
257 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
258 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
259 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
260 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
262 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
263 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
265 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
266 * Add an md5sums control file.
267 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
268 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
269 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
270 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
271 currently part of policy.
272 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
273 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
274 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
277 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
279 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
282 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
283 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
284 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
285 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
286 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
287 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
288 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
289 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
290 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
291 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
292 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
293 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
294 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
295 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
296 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
298 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
300 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
301 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
302 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
304 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
305 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
306 list?" (Closes: #412634).
307 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
308 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
309 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
310 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
311 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
312 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
313 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
314 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
315 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
316 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
317 debconf specification.
318 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
319 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
321 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
323 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
326 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
328 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
329 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
331 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
334 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
335 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
336 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
337 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
339 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
340 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
341 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
342 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
343 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
344 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
345 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
346 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
347 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
348 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
349 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
350 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
351 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
352 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
353 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
354 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
356 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
358 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
359 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
360 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
361 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
362 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
363 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
364 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
365 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
367 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
369 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
372 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
373 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
374 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
375 Polo (Closes: #372497).
376 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
377 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
379 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
380 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
381 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
382 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
384 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
385 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
386 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
387 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
388 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
390 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
391 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
392 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
393 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
394 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
395 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
397 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
399 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
402 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
403 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
404 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
406 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
407 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
409 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
411 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
414 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
415 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
416 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
417 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
418 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
419 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
420 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
421 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
422 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
424 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
425 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
426 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
427 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
428 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
429 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
430 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
431 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
433 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
434 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
437 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
439 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
442 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
443 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
444 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
445 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
446 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
447 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
448 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
449 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
450 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
451 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
452 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
453 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
454 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
455 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
456 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
457 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
458 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
459 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
460 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
461 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
462 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
463 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
464 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
465 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
466 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
467 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
468 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
470 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
471 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
472 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
473 Hess (Closes: #362247).
474 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
475 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
476 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
477 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
478 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
479 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
480 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
481 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
482 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
483 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
484 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
485 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
487 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
488 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
490 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
491 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
492 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
493 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
494 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
495 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
496 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
497 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
498 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
499 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
500 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
502 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
504 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
508 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
509 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
510 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
511 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
512 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
513 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
514 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
515 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
516 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
517 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
518 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
519 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
521 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
522 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
523 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
524 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
525 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
526 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
527 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
528 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
529 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
530 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
531 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
532 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
533 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
534 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
535 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
536 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
537 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
538 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
539 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
542 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
544 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
547 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
548 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
549 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
551 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
552 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
553 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
554 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
556 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
558 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
562 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
563 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
564 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
565 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
566 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
567 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
568 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
569 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
570 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
572 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
573 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
574 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
576 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
577 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
578 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
579 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
580 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
581 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
582 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
584 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
585 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
586 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
587 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
589 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
590 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
591 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
592 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
593 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
594 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
595 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
596 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
598 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
599 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
600 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
601 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
602 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
603 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
604 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
605 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
606 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
607 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
608 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
609 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
610 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
611 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
612 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
613 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
614 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
616 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
618 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
621 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
622 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
623 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
624 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
625 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
626 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
627 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
628 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
629 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
631 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
632 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
633 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
634 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
635 this section. closes: Bug#248618
636 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
637 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
638 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
639 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
640 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
641 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
642 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
643 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
644 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
645 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
646 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
647 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
649 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
650 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
651 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
654 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
655 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
656 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
658 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
659 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
660 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
661 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
662 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
663 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
665 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
666 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
668 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
669 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
670 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
671 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
672 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
673 Closes: #185943, #237049
675 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
677 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
683 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
684 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
685 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
686 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
687 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
688 running. closes: Bug#187250
689 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
690 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
691 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
692 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
693 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
694 user closes: Bug#176506
696 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
698 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
702 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
703 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
704 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
705 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
706 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
707 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
708 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
709 deb-building toolchain.
710 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
711 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
712 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
713 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
714 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
715 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
716 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
717 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
718 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
719 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
720 sections about changelog files.
722 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
723 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
724 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
725 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
726 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
727 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
729 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
730 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
731 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
732 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
733 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
734 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
735 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
736 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
737 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
738 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
739 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
740 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
741 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
742 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
743 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
744 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
745 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
746 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
747 for the restructuring
749 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
751 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
756 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
757 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
758 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
759 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
760 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
761 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
763 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
764 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
765 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
766 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
767 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
768 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
769 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
771 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
772 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
773 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
774 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
776 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
778 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
782 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
783 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
784 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
785 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
786 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
788 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
789 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
790 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
791 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
793 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
794 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
795 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
796 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
797 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
798 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
799 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
800 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
801 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
803 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
804 script should start it, closes: #60979
805 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
806 "should", closes: #170019
807 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
808 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
809 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
810 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
811 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
812 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
813 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
814 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
817 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
819 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
823 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
824 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
825 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
826 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
827 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
828 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
829 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
830 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
832 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
833 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
834 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
835 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
836 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
837 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
838 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
839 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
840 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
842 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
843 file, closes: Bug#65764
845 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
847 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
850 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
851 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
852 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
853 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
854 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
855 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
856 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
857 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
858 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
859 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
860 details. closes: Bug#133030
861 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
862 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
865 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
867 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
870 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
871 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
872 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
873 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
874 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
875 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
876 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
877 not. closes: Bug#139820
878 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
879 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
880 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
881 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
882 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
883 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
884 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
885 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
886 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
887 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
889 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
891 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
892 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
893 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
894 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
895 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
896 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
897 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
898 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
899 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
900 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
901 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
902 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
903 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
904 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
905 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
906 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
907 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
908 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
909 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
910 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
912 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
913 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
914 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
915 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
916 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
917 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
918 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
920 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
921 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
922 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
923 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
924 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
925 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
926 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
927 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
928 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
930 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
932 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
935 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
936 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
937 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
938 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
939 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
940 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
941 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
942 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
943 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
944 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
945 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
946 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
947 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
948 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
949 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
950 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
951 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
952 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
953 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
954 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
955 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
956 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
958 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
960 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
963 medium, high, emergency.
964 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
965 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
966 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
967 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
968 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
971 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
972 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
973 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
975 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
976 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
977 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
978 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
979 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
980 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
981 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
984 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
986 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
989 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
990 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
991 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
993 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
994 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
995 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
996 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
997 debian/rules to do this
998 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
999 patches are incorporated upstream
1000 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1001 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1002 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1003 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1004 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1005 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1007 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1008 system closes: Bug#91249
1009 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1010 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1011 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1012 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1013 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1014 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1015 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1016 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1017 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1018 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1019 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1020 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1021 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1023 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1025 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1028 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1029 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1030 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1032 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1033 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1034 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1036 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1039 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1041 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1044 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1045 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1046 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1047 package for the time being
1048 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1049 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1050 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1051 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1052 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1053 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1054 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1055 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1056 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1057 Build-Depends arch syntax
1058 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1060 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1061 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1063 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1064 from policy maintenance duties.
1065 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1066 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1068 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1070 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1074 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1076 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1079 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1080 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1081 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1082 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1083 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1084 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1085 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1086 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1087 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1088 minor version number for this
1089 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1090 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1091 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1092 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1093 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1094 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1095 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1096 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1097 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1099 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1101 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1104 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1105 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1106 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1107 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1109 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1111 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1112 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1113 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1114 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1115 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1116 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1117 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1118 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1119 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1120 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1121 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1122 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1123 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1124 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1125 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1126 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1129 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1131 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1134 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1136 * Document the Enhances relationship
1137 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1138 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1139 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1140 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1141 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1142 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1144 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1146 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1147 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1148 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1149 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1151 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1152 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1153 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1154 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1155 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1157 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1159 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1162 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1163 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1165 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1166 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1167 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1168 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1169 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1170 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1171 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1172 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1173 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1175 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1177 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1179 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1182 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1183 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1184 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1185 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1186 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1187 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1188 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1189 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1190 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1191 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1192 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1193 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1194 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1195 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1196 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1197 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1198 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1199 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1200 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1201 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1202 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1204 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1205 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1207 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1209 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1212 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1213 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1214 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1215 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1216 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1217 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1218 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1219 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1220 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1221 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1222 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1223 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1224 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1225 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1226 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1227 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1228 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1229 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1230 list closes: Bug#53756
1231 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1232 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1233 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1234 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1235 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1236 policy closes: Bug#53760
1237 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1238 policy closes: Bug#53761
1239 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1240 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1241 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1242 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1243 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1244 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1245 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1246 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1247 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1248 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1249 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1251 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1252 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1253 to install with older fileutils.
1254 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1255 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1256 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1257 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1259 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1260 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1262 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1264 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1267 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1269 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1271 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1274 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1276 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1279 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1282 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1284 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1286 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1288 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1291 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1293 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1295 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1298 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1299 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1300 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1301 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1302 directoried (closes: #41547)
1303 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1304 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1305 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1306 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1307 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1308 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1309 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1310 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1311 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1312 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1313 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1315 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1316 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1317 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1318 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1319 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1320 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1321 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1323 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1324 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1325 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1326 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1328 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1330 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1332 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1333 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1335 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1337 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1340 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1342 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1344 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1347 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1349 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1350 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1351 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1352 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1353 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1354 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1355 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1356 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1357 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1358 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1359 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1360 this closes: Bug#38612
1361 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1362 before. closes: Bug#40864
1364 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1366 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1369 officially uploaded.
1370 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1372 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1373 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1374 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1376 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1377 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1378 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1379 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1380 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1381 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1383 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1384 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1385 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1387 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1389 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1390 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1391 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1392 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1393 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1395 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1397 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1400 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1401 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1402 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1403 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1404 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1405 there). closes: Bug#34233
1406 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1407 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1408 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1409 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1410 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1412 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1414 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1417 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1418 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1419 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1422 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1423 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1424 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1425 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1426 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1429 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1430 number. closes: BUG#25911
1432 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1433 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1434 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1435 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1436 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1437 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1439 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1440 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1441 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1444 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1445 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1446 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1448 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1449 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1450 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1451 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1453 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1454 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1455 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1457 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1459 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1460 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1461 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1462 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1463 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1464 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1465 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1466 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1469 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1471 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1472 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1475 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1477 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1481 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1483 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1486 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1487 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1488 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1489 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1490 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1491 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1492 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1494 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1495 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1497 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1499 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1501 * non-maintainer release
1502 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1503 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1505 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1506 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1507 * no content changes
1508 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1510 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1512 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1516 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1518 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1522 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1523 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1524 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1526 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1527 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1529 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1530 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1531 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1532 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1534 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1535 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1536 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1537 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1538 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1539 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1540 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1542 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1543 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1544 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1547 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1548 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1549 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1551 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1552 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1553 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1555 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1556 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1558 * New version numbering scheme:
1560 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1561 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1562 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1565 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1566 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1567 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1568 differ between the manuals.
1570 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1571 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1572 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1573 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1575 * Packaging changes:
1577 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1578 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1580 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1582 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1584 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1588 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1589 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1590 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1592 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1593 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1596 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1597 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1598 file extension as the referenced file
1600 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1601 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1603 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1604 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1605 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1606 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1609 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1610 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1611 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1613 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1614 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1615 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1616 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1619 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1620 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1623 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1624 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1625 reasonable default configuration
1627 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1628 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1629 by all news servers and clients
1631 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1632 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1633 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1634 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1635 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1637 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1638 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1641 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1643 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1644 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1646 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1649 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1650 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1652 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1653 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1655 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1657 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1659 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1662 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1663 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1664 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1666 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1668 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1669 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1670 * Don't use debstd anymore
1672 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1674 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1677 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1678 contrib/non-free policy
1679 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1680 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1681 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1682 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1683 - new section about `Daemons'
1684 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1685 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1686 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1687 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1688 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1689 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1690 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1691 * SGML source code included in package
1692 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1694 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1696 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1699 - completely reworked structure
1700 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1701 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1702 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1703 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1704 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1705 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1706 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1707 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1708 - mention "orphaned packages"
1709 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1710 distributions' policy
1711 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1712 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1713 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1714 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1715 - added section about arch spec strings
1716 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1717 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1718 - added section about "menus"
1719 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1720 the new documentation policy soon
1721 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1722 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1724 - added section about editors and pagers
1725 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1726 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1727 - added section about device files
1728 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1729 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1730 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1732 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1733 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1734 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1735 - Added new section about obsolete names
1736 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1737 * Fixed package's description
1739 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1741 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1745 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1747 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1750 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1751 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1752 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1754 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1756 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1759 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1760 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1762 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1763 and upload it "byhand" too.
1765 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1767 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1771 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1772 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1773 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1774 functionality must not have the same name.
1775 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1776 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1777 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1778 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1779 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1780 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1781 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1783 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1784 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1785 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1786 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1787 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1788 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1789 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1790 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1793 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1795 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1797 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1799 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1800 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1801 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1802 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1803 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1806 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1808 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1810 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1812 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1813 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1814 description of deb file format.
1815 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1816 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1818 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1820 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1821 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1823 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1825 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1827 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1828 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1829 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1830 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1831 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1832 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1833 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1834 packages in section on Procedure
1835 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1836 a package maintainer
1837 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1838 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1839 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1841 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1842 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1843 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1844 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1845 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1846 on various shlib files
1847 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1848 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1849 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1851 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1853 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1855 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1856 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1857 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1859 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1860 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1861 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1862 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1863 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1865 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1867 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1869 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1871 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1873 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1874 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1875 compatibility go in contrib.
1877 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1878 instructions in policy manual.
1879 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1882 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1884 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1886 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1887 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1888 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1889 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1891 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1892 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1895 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1897 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1899 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1900 * More detail about changelog format names.
1902 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1903 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1907 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1909 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1911 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1913 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1915 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1917 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1919 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1921 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1922 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1923 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1925 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1927 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1929 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1931 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1933 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1937 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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